“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Agency in the Universe: Towards a Physics of the World-Soul

My book on Whitehead’s relevance to scientific cosmology.

 

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6 responses to “Agency in the Universe: Towards a Physics of the World-Soul”

  1. […] Matt hit on this, to some small extent in his response video and another video (found at: https://footnotes2plato.com/2013/12/07/agency-in-the-universe-towards-a-physics-of-the-world-soul/)[4], but the word “hylozoism” escaped him.  It is the idea that, in all matter, there is some […]

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    […] to milliern for his commentary on and reflections about an exchange Professor Corey Anton, myself, and others have been having on YouTube. I’m reposting my comment to him […]

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    […] for a worldly religion, our unorthodox positions in the theism vs. atheism run together. But, as we’ve made explicit before, we part ways when it comes to the question of agency’s place in the cosmos. I defend a […]

  4. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Hey Matt, have you read any Galen Strawson or David Skrbina on Panpsychism?
    It may have the potential to become the foundations of a new world view.

    1. Matthew David Segall Avatar

      I have. I don’t think they emphasize the process relational dimension enough, though. Still too substance-based.

      Whitehead’s panexperientalism is the most sophisticated and compatible with science and spirituality that I’ve come across.

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    […] to milliern for his commentary on and reflections about an exchange Professor Corey Anton, myself, and others have been having on YouTube. I’m reposting my comment to him […]

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